Internet "Brown-out???"

[talexb-SBdzbUvMQDunS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org]

Hello all,

I reported this problem to Sympatico at about 1230pm and was apparently
one of the first to report in. It looks like it has been resolved.

I found that google.com, google.ca, pair.com (my web provider) and
comcast.net were not responding to pings. Strangely enough, yahoo.com
didn't work, but yahoo.ca did, *after* re-directing to ca.yahoo.com.

I'm also surprised .. I always understood that the Internet routed around
damage. The fact that I couldn't get to pair.com was particularly
surprising .. unless the problem was with a major piece of fibre on
Sympatico's side.

BTW, yesterday I ordered a new modem for my Sympatico service .. for any
of you who are hoping to make use of their increased speed, you need to
trade your old grey Nortel modem (I think I got mine in August 2000) for a
more up to date piece of equipment. Call 416-310-SURF and go through to
*Billing*, not Technical Support. They'll ship you out the new modem and
you ship back the old one. Make sure you get the receipt stamped (from
when you ship the old modem back), and keep the Canada Post paperwork.

3M down, 768K up (I think), here I come !!!!

Alex

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Christopher Browne wrote:

> I'm noticing that things are not entirely "responding well" this
> afternoon.
>
> I was trying to get at a webmail account at Yahoo, and they don't seem
> to responding.  Ditto for Google.com/Google.ca.  That could conceivably
> be Sympatico's fault.
>
> They also don't respond from "the office," which wouldn't be.
>
> I can get at such places from a server I can get at in Texas...
>
> Is it possible that some Canadian routing tables are mussed up???
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